†Paliguana whitei Broom 1903 (crown diapsid)
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Full reference: R. Broom. 1903. On the skull of a true Lizard (Paliguana Whitei) from the Triassic beds of South Africa. Records of the Albany Museum 1(1):1-3
Belongs to Paliguana according to M. D. Ezcurra 2016
See also Broom 1903, Carroll 1975 and Estes 1983
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMG 3585, a partial skull (premaxillaries lost, lower jaw and maxillaries badly crushed). Its type locality is Donnybrook (Queenstown District), which is in an Induan/Olenekian fluvial mudstone in the Katberg Formation of South Africa.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Donnybrook (Queenstown District)
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